2 Corinthians 8:16
But thanks [be] to God, who gives the same diligent zeal for you in the heart of Titus.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
In Context
17For he received indeed the entreaty, but, being full of zeal, he went of his own accord to you;
Cross References
2 Chronicles 31:8And Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, and they blessed Jehovah, and his people Israel.
Nehemiah 2:12And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me but I told no man what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem and there was no beast with me, except the beast that I rode upon.
Jeremiah 32:40And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not draw back from them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their heart, that they may not turn aside from me.
2 Corinthians 7:7and not by his coming only, but also through the encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you; relating to us your ardent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I the more rejoiced.
Philippians 2:20For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine feeling how ye get on.
Revelation 17:17for God has given to their hearts to do his mind, and to act with one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 8:8-16
Charity Urged. ( a. d. 57.) 7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also. 8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. 9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. 10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient… Read the whole commentary →